Film Date
Dec-68
Film Reference Number
KTVU 3
Description
KTVU News report from December 1968 at San Francisco State College featuring a series of press conferences on campus including a Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) spokesman (Dr Juan Martinez) explaining to reporters their pre-conditions for negotiating with the administration followed by views of mass demonstrations on campus. Mounted police are shown patrolling 19th Avenue President S.I. Hayakawa inspects burnt out classrooms students are beaten and arrested and a firecracker is set off outside the Administration Building. Also features an eyewitness report of how one protester fired off blank rounds from a pistol into the air during confrontations with police. Please note this footage includes brief glimpses of Bill Moore operating the KTVU camera. He was the first African American news cameraman in California.